The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-12-15
TALMAGE'S SERMON,
The Weekly Discourse of the Great
Brooklyn Preacher
Subject, s'The SaIutasion From
the Chariot"

i.Ni' AsLHHe Heub FigHt I'll. Kings
Il, ID,
With mettlel horses at full speed, for he
was celebrated for fast driving, Jehu, the
warrior and king, returns from battle. But
seeing Jehonadao, an acquaintance, by the
wayside, no shouts whoa! whoar' to the
latherel span, Then, leaning over to Jehon-
adab, Jehu salautes him in the words Of the
text-words not more appropriate for that
hour and that place than for this hour and
place,
Is thine heart right should like to hear
OF your physical health. Well myself, like
to have everybody else well; and so might
ask: Is your eyesight right, your hearing
right, your nerves right, your lungs right,
your entire body right. But | am busy to-
day taking diagnosis of the more important
spiritual conditions
should like to hear of your financial well
fare, l want everybody to have plenty Of
money, ample apparel, large storehouse, and
comfortable residence, Aud might ask; Is
your business right your income right YOUR
worldly surroundings right. But what are
these financial questions compared with the
inquiry as to whether you have been able to
ray your debts to God; as to whether you
are running yourself by the long credit sys-
TEN of the souli l have known men to have
no more than one loaf OF bread at time, and
yet to own government bond of heaven
worth more than the whole material uni
verse
The question ask you to-day is not in re-
gard to your habits. / make no inquiry
about your integrity, or your chastity or
your sobriety. l do not mean to stand ON
the outside OF the gate AMI ring the bell; but
coming up the steps l open the door and
come to the private apartment of the soul !;
ana with the earneStneSS of a man that must
give an account for this days work, cry
put: ~ man, o woman immortal, is thine
heart right.n
| will i,,splt NV a..
prove that we are by nature all wrong. IL
there DO factory explosion and the smoke
stack be upset, and the wheels be broken in
two, and the engine unjointed and the pom
dcrous bars be twisted, and man should
look in and say that nothing was the matter,
yon would pronounce him a fool Well, it
needs no acumen to discover that our nature
Is all atwist and askew and uniointed The
thing doesn't work right. The biggest trouble
we have IN the world is with our souls.
Men sometimes say that though their lives
may not be just right their heart is all right.
impossible. farmer never puts the poorest
apples on top of his barrel; nor does the mer-
chant place the meanest goods in his show
window. The best part of us is our outward
life. do not stop to discuss whether we all
Tell in Adam, for we have been our own
Adam, and have all eaten of the forbidden
fruit, and have been turned ont of the para
dlse OF holiness and peace; and though the
flaming sword that stood at the gate to keep
us out has changed position and comes behind
to drive us in, we will not CO.
Inc Bible account of us is not exaggerated
when it says that we are poor and wretched
and miserable and blind and naked. Poor:
the wretch that stands shivering on our door
step on cold day is not so much in need of
Dread as we are of spiritual help. Bind:
why, the man whose eyes perished in the
powder blast, and who for these ten wears
mas gone feeling his way from street to street,
is not i'll such utter darkness as we Naked:
why, there is not one rag of holiness left to
hide the shame of our SIM Sick: why, the
ieprosy has eaten into the head and the heart
and the hands AMI the feet, and the maras-
mus Oh an everlasting wasting away has al
ready seized on some of us.
First we need repenting heart. If for the
last ten, twenty Or forty years of life we have
been going on in the wrong way it is time
that we turned around and started in the
opposite direction II we offend our friends
we are glad to apologize. God is our best
friend, and yet how many OF us have never
apologlzed for the wrongs ehave done Himl
There is nothing that We so much need to
get rid OF as sin. 1t is a horrible black mon
ster. 1t polluted Eden. 1t killed Christ. 1t
has blasted the world. Men keep dogs in
kennels, and rabbits in a warren, and cattle
In pen. What man that would be who
would shut them up in his parlor But this
1oul DOG OF SIN, and these herds of transgres.
sion, we have entertained for many a long
year IN our heart, which should be the clean
est, brightest room in all our nature. Ont
with the vile herd! Beyone, We befoulers of
an immortal nature! Turn out the beasts
and let Christ come in!
a heather came to an early Christian who
mad the reputation of curing diseases The |
Christian said: "You must have all your idols
destroyed" The heather gave to the Chris.
tlan the key to his house, that he might 90 in
and destroy the idols. He battered to r?eces |
al ne saw, but still the man did not get well. |
The Christian said to him: "There must be |
some SC, ldol III your house not yet DESTROYED"
me heathen confessed that there was one idol
OF beaten gold that he could not bear to give |
up. After while when that was DESTROYED. |
IN answer to the prayer of the Christian the
sick man got well.
Many man has awakened in his diving
nour TO find his sins all about him. They
clamoered up on the right side of the bed.
on the lett slde and over the headboard, and
over the footboard, and horribly devoured
the soul.
Repent! the voice celestial cries,
= Nor longer dare delay
The wretch that scorns the mandate dies,
Andmeets fiery day.
Again, we need believing heart. A eooo
many years ago weary one went up one of
the hills of Asia Minor, and with two logs on
bis back cried out to al the world. offering
sued him. They slapped him in the face
They Knocked him. When he groaned they
groaned. They shook their fists at him,
They spit on him. They bounded him as
though he We're wild beast. His healing of
the sick, his sight giving to the blind, his
Of the world. His prayers and benedictlons
were lost in that whrlwind of execration,
Away with him! Away with him!
All it was not merely the two pieces of
wood that he carried; it was the transgres-
slons OF the race the anguish of the ages, the
pendous interests of an intending eternit,
NO wonder his back bent. No wonder the
blood started from every pore. No wonder
that he crouched under torture that made
the sun faint and the everlasting hills trem-
bic, and the dead rush up in their winding
sheets as he cried, ''If it be possible, let this
cup pass from me.n But the cup did not
pass. None to comfort
There he hangs! What has that hand done
that it should be thus crushed in the
palm2 1t has been healing the lame and
wlping away tears. What has that foot been
doing that it should be so lacerated. 1t has
been going about doing good. OF what has
the victim been guilty. Guilty of saving
world. Tell me- We heavens and earth, was
there ever such another criminal! Was there
ever such a crimes On that hill of carnage.
that sunless day, amid those bowling rioters,
may not your sins and mine have perished2
believe it.
oh, the ransom has been paid. Those
arms of Jesus were stretched out so wide
that When He brought them together
again they might embrace the world.
Oh, that 1 might, out of the blossoms
OF the spring, or the flaming folis ge
OF the autumn, make one wreath Tor
my Lord! oh, that all the triumphaf arches
of the world could be swung in one gateway,
where the King of Glory might come in
Oh, that all the harps and trumpets and or
gans of earthly music might, in one anthem,
speak his praise!
But what were earthly flowers to him who
walketh amid the snow of the white lilies of
Heaven! What were arches of earthly ma
sonry to him who hath about his throne a
rainbow spun out of everlasting sunshine!
What were all earthly music to him wbei
the hundred and forty and four thousand on
one side, and the cherubim. and seraphim,
and archangels stand on the other side, and
oil the space between is filled with the dox-
ologies of eternal jubilee-the hosanna of
q redeemed earth, the hallelujah of unfallen